Handcoloured wood engraving, 100 x 75mm; Very good.Charming French hand-coloured woodcut depicting a man and woman of "New Holland". It was most likely printed as part of a series of costume plates, and may be the same as a similarly-sized woodcut of the...

Foolscap folio, 19 pp.; Later half roan, spine lettered in gilt.An excellent copy of a rare report, printing a decade of major dispatches from New South Wales Governors on the subjects of the Aborigines of New South...

Octavo, original purple cloth (a bit flecked), interleaved with lined blanks.This copy is inscribed by the author to Australian pastoralist Henry White, whose racehorses were acclaimed on the Australian turf, with winners in the 1896 Australian Jockey Club Derby and 1900 Doncaster.

Sydney: James Reading, n.d. but, 1841. Duodecimo, 24 pp.; original plain blue paper wrappers.Very scarce Sydney printing of the Reverend Adams' lecture on the Sabbath. Adams, a seaman's chaplain, delivered this sermon in the Scot's Church, Sydney on 25 July 1841. It was the second in a series of...

Two volumes, with both half-titles; contemporary mottled calf, flat spines gilt and with double red and green morocco labels.A fine and attractively bound set of voyages collected and edited for the enlightenment of younger...

Foolscap folio, 36, [iv] pp., last blank, large folding map; wrappers thumbed.Uncommon: official report of the Commission tasked to investigate the appalling loss of the steamship Admella off the coast of South Australia in 1859. The tragedy marks...

Three volumes bound in one, small octavo; some wear to the edges of the boards and a library reference at head of spine, an attractive copy in contemporary quarter calf.A rare Portuguese imaginary voyage to...

Three volumes bound in one, small octavo; in contemporary marbled sheep preserved in folding cloth case.A rare Portuguese imaginary voyage to Australia, not recorded by most of the commentators on the genre. In...

Octavo, 150, xii pp., original printed limp linen wrappers; folding Sangorski quarter brown morocco case.Ferguson notes this is the second South Australian almanac.The work includes the important and very early botanical series of lectures by George Stevenson...

Game comprising 24 timber blocks, each papered with illustrations on each face, with six chromolithographic paper guiding sheets each measuring 177 x 262 mm., original box with papered lid.French alphabet blocks, comprising a game for children wherein the blocks are rearranged on their...

Octavo, with 48 plates and two colour maps, original green cloth with attractive gilt blocked kangaroo motif.An excellent copy of this generously illustrated survey of Australia's agriculture and natural resources by the long-serving secretary of the Swedish Society...

Octavo, folding map and folding plate, illustrated throughout; in original illustrated brown cloth, flyleaf inscribed and signed by the author.Signed presentation copy in original illustrated cloth, detailing the audacious solo transatlantic crossing of William...

Paris: Plon, 1893. Octavo, folding map; a good copy, uncut in the original blue-grey wrappers,First edition: this is an especially good account of Hawaii at the end of the nineteenth century, by a French diplomat, written under the pseudonym Georges Sauvin.D'Anglade was French Consul and Commissioner to Hawaii and...

Philadelphia: (Dobelbower, Key and Simpson), 1796. Engraved portrait, 155 x 100 mm.Oval engraved portrait of Cook in profile.Originally issued in The World Displayed, or A Curious Collection of Voyages and Travels Selected and Compiled from the Writers of all Nations by Smart, Goldsmith & Johnson.

Philadelphia: circa 1798. Engraving on laid paper by Scot & Allardice, 65 x 130 mm.Robert Scot and Samuel Allardice worked together in Philadelphia as printers and engravers, Francis Shallus who is credited with doing all 41 plates of the 1818 Philadelphia edition of The Voyages of Captain Cook, worked...

Quarto, folding map; black half roan, with the bookplate of Henry White.An essential First Fleet book, widely considered the best guide to the establishment of a penal colony in New South Wales: 'an extremely interesting work and an...